Justin Tallant jtallant

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer

This gist is part of a blog post. Check it out at:

http://jasonrudolph.com/blog/2011/08/09/programming-achievements-how-to-level-up-as-a-developer

Installing Node on CentOS

Node requires Python 2.6+

python -V make sure that is a capital V

If you are less than 2.6 then you need to install a newer version of Python but don't worry it's easy.

First off you need to recognize yum’s dependency on Python 2.4. Simply replacing this will break your passing semblance of a package manager. We will be using this later so not breaking is the preferred path. Python versions can live in relative harmony together. Download the Python source and untar it to some directory. I use /opt or ~/source for all of my non-native additions. You can choose whatever you want.

	# BEGIN mod headers
	<IfModule mod_headers.c>
	Header set Connection keep-alive
	</IfModule>
	# END mod headers


	# BEGIN compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
	<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain

	def chop(target, ordered_array)
	# Wrap ordered array with an array if it has not been wrapped
	ordered_array = [ordered_array, 0] if !ordered_array[0].is_a?(Array)
	sub_array = ordered_array[0]
	total_sliced_from_left = ordered_array[1]

	# no matches found
	return -1 if sub_array.empty? \|\| sub_array.size == 1 && sub_array[0] != target

	middle = sub_array.size / 2

	# If this were for purposes of cleaning out
	# offensive words it would be easier to just use gsub
	# but in this case we want to preserve things like "bigger"
	# when searching for "big"

	# also the challenge was using an array as the second argument
	# where this takes an unlimited number of params. Each param passed
	# after the first is a string we want to obfuscate

	# Alternative solution below that allows the words param to be

	<?php

	/**
	* Automatically minifies style.css and writes output to style.min.css
	*
	* @author Justin Tallant
	* @param boolean $minification_is_on when true ends execution of the function
	* @return void
	* @link http://justintallant.com/switching-between-minified-and-non-minified-css-and-js-files-in-wordpress/
	*/

	# compress text, html, javascript, css, xml:
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/plain
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/xhtml+xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/rss+xml
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/javascript
	AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

	<?php

	/**
	* Shows related posts by tag if available and category if not
	*
	* @author Justin Tallant
	* @param string $title h4 above list of related posts
	* @param int $count max number of posts to show
	* @return mixed related posts wrapped in div or null if none found
	*/

	<?php

	$jt_use_minified_files = true;

	add_filter( 'stylesheet_uri', 'child_stylesheet_uri', 10, 2 );
	function child_stylesheet_uri($stylesheet_uri, $stylesheet_dir_uri) {

	global $jt_use_minified_files;

	if ( true == $jt_use_minified_files ) {

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Checkbox</title>
	<style>

	input[type=checkbox] {
	display:none;
	}

	#car + label,